As Atletico Madrid was coming out for very important game at the Champions League against Galatasaray, to the surprise and joy to them it ended playing one of its easiest games in the season. As Galatasaray, didnt provide any danger to Atletico Madrid it turned out to be training game for them.
As been stated in yesterday's blog, it was expected that Galatasaray will play poorly without head coach and regarding of the condition the club is but this play was even poorer than weakest link at group Astana. Taking account that thing could be go wrong, there was not even belief and attempt to bring something from Galatasaray at this game. It looked like club has thrown white flag after conceding 1st and especially 2nd goal.
Quite naturally it is expected that club will improve as Mustafa Denizli will be appointed as head coach but this game and previous game in Super League against Antalyaspor has shown that firstly Claudio Taffarel is not ready to be head coach and seconly newly appointed head coach has many things to do regarding of motivation of the team.
Now Galatasaray fans and players might talk about chances in Europa League but they still needs to not lose Astana in final game, and it will need lots of concentration as Astana will play its best football in Istanbul next month.
Fenerbahce needs to get a win against surprise package of the group.
Fenerbahce will play among the most surprising teams at this season at the Europa League: Molde. Prior to start of group stages, everyone thought that Molde would be clear outsider but quite opposite it became first team to qualify to play-off stage at this group, with 2 games in hand.
The fact that Molde has qualified doesnt make Fenerbahce job easier as it is obvious that club will aim at top spot. In other side, if Fenerbahce wants to carry on Europa League after December then it must win today's game to make its status more certain before game against Celtic.
As, Molde head coach Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has mentioned himself, Fenerbahce is currently during great work defensively. This is strongest strength against club who scores lots of goals at this campaign. Another important fact, is the weather in Norway. Fenerbahce players are not used to cold and icy conditions therefore this will be another opponent to club but as long club focusses it should get very important win against surprised package.
Early goal by Besiktas should bring easy win against Skenderbreu.
Compare to Molde, Besiktas opponent and outsider of group Skenderbreu was not available to provide any surprises apart of unexpected win against Sporting. Of course, job for Besiktas will not be easy and harder than in first game as Skenderbreu has lots of motivation after winning Sporting, but Besiktas classic attacking play should not raise problems for them.
Most important thing for Besiktas is to keep concentration and start finding attacks with help of Mario Gomez. Quaresma and others in which case it will be easy game. However, it is important to note that Besiktas is currently losing tempo in recent games so maybe it wont be reasonable to expect lots of attacks by Besiktas.
Another fact is importance of scoring early goal as each delayed minute by Besiktas would provide confidences to the opponents. But Besiktas should get win tomorrow.
Results
UEFA Champions League, Group C, 5th week
Astana 2:2 Benfica
Atletico Madrid 2:0 Galatasaray
Schedule
UEFA Europa League, Group H, 5th week
20:00 Besiktas- Skenderbreu
20:00 Lokomotiv Moscow - Sporting
UEFA Europa League, Group A, 5th week
22:05 Molde - Fenerbahce
22:05 Celtic - Ajax
In other news
- Galatasaray: Our new head coach Mustafa Denizli will sign contract with us on 26th November at 14:00.
- Besiktas player Jose Sosa didnt complete today's training session due of back pain.
- Besiktas has announced that cost of Oguzhan Ozyakup is 20 million Euro.
- Italian newspaper Veneto: Besiktas are interested to sign Udinese player Emmanuel Badu.
- ShakhtarDonetsk are interested to sign Besiktas player Ismail Koybasi.
- ShandongLuneng are interested to sign Besiktas player Ersan Gulum
- Trabzonspor CEO candidate Muharrem Usta: Per year we gain around 80 million Euro and lose 240 million Euro. We make loss 160 million euro per year. In May we need at least 200 million euro
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sporting Lisbon player Andre Carillo.
- Three fans have recieved 1 year ban for entering to stadium due of usage of foul language against Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel.
- Galatasaray are interested to sign Trabzonspor player Oscar Cardozo.
-Galatasaray are interested to sign Atletico Madrid player Fernando Torres.
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- Turkish referres Cuneyt Cakir, Huseyin Gocek, Mete Kalkavan and Ali Palibayik will be refereing with FIFA emblem in 2016 season.
- Trabzonspor player Oscar Cardozo is expected to terminate contract with club in upcoming day due of not recieving wages for 4 months.
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